Lakes, Sea, Bays, etc. Flashcards
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second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area
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Lake Victoria
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named by John Hanning Speke while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton
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Lake Victoria
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cities of Kampala, Uganda; Mwanza, Tanzania; Entebbe, Uganda; Kisumu, Kenya
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Lake Victoria
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source of the White Nile
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Lake Victoria
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Owen Falls Dam
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Lake Victoria
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cichlid (threatened by Nile perch)
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Lake Victoria
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Ukerewe Island is home to a large community of albinos
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Lake Victoria
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“summer smoke” (giant clouds of mayflies)
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Lake Victoria
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second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth
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Lake Tanganyika
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drains into the Congo River
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Lake Tanganyika
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cities of Bujumbura, Burundi (capital); Kigoma, Tanzania
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Lake Tanganyika
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Henry Stanley found Dr. Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shore of this lake
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Lake Tanganyika
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fed by the Ruzizi River (from Lake Kivu) and the Malagarasi River
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Lake Tanganyika
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between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania
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Lake Malawi
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formerly known as Lake Nyasa, which means ‘Lake Lake’
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Lake Malawi
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nicknamed by David Livingstone as the ‘Lake of Stars’ and ‘Lake of Storms’
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Lake Malawi
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the main outflow of this lake is through the Shire River
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Lake Malawi
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formed on the Nile by the Aswan High Dam
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Lake Nasser
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saltwater lake in Kenya, Ethiopia
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Lake Turkana
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formerly known as Lake Rudolf
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Lake Turkana
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shrunk by about 95% in the 20th century
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Lake Chad
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fed by the Chari River and Yobe River
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Lake Chad
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shallow lake
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Lake Chad
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Bodélé Depression
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Lake Chad
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“Mega Chad” existed during the African humid period that was maybe 1000 times larger
Lake Chad
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in danger of suffering a limnic eruption
Lake Kivu
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formerly known as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko
Lake Albert
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source of the Blue Nile
Lake Tana
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connected to Lake Michigan by the Straits of Mackinac
Lake Huron
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Manitoulin Island
Lake Huron
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world’s largest freshwater island
Lake Huron
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Saginaw Bay
Lake Huron
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cities of Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Mississauga, Rochester, NY
Lake Ontario
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receives water from the Niagara River via the Niagara Falls
Lake Ontario
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empties into the St. Lawrence River
Lake Ontario
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cities of Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Muskegon
Lake Michigan
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Petoskey and Charlevoix stones (fossilized corals)
Lake Michigan
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Lake Michigan
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North and South Manitou Islands
Lake Michigan
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Beaver Island was once home to the Mormon Kingdom
Lake Michigan
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cities of Cleveland and Buffalo, New York
Lake Erie
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site of Oliver Hazard Perry's victory during the War of 1812
Lake Erie
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not giving up its dead
Lake Superior
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Isle Royale
Lake Superior
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cities of Marquette, Duluth
Lake Superior
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drains through St. Mary’s River
Lake Superior
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Gichigami (Gitche Gumme) means “Great Sea”
Lake Superior
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (by Gordon Lightfoot)
Lake Superior
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pitchblende (a Uranium ore) mining
Great Bear Lake
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town of Deline
Great Bear Lake
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the deepest lake in North America
Great Slave Lake
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city of Yellowknife sits on it
Great Slave Lake
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Manitoba
Lake Winnipeg
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drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay
Lake Winnipeg
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fed by the Red River of the North
Lake Winnipeg
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the largest lake in Central America
Lake Nicaragua
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city of Granada
Lake Nicaragua
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drains into the Caribbean Sea by the San Juan River
Lake Nicaragua
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Utah
Great Salt Lake
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remnant of prehistoric Lake Bonneville
Great Salt Lake
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fed by the Bear and Jordan Rivers
Great Salt Lake
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Brigham Young founded Salt Lake City
Great Salt Lake
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Promontory Point
Great Salt Lake
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Lucin Cutoff
Great Salt Lake
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Fremont and Antelope Islands
Great Salt Lake
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created by the Oquirrh Mountain Range that runs under the lake
Great Salt Lake
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contains the Northwest Angle
Lake of the Woods
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Florida
Lake Okeechobee
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second largest lake entirely inside the US
Lake Okeechobee
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formerly part of the Everglades system
Lake Okeechobee
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Okeechobee Hurricane in 1928 went over the lake, killing thousands
Lake Okeechobee
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Lousiana north of New Orleans (saltwater)
Lake Pontchartrain
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crossed by The Causeway, the longest bridge in the US at about 23 miles
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man-made reservoir (biggest one) in North Dakota
Lake Sakakawea
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Fort Ticonderoga
Lake Champlain
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cities of Burlington, VT and Plattsburg, NY
Lake Champlain
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location of ‘Fort Blunder’
Lake Champlain
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named by Samuel de Champlain
Lake Champlain
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formed from the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama
Crater Lake
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Oregon lake known for deep blue and clear water
Crater Lake
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popular vacation spot on the Nevada-California border
Lake Tahoe
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Squaw Valley
Lake Tahoe
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hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics
Lake Tahoe
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reservoir, formerly the largest but, because of drought, now Lake Sakakawea is
Lake Mead
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formed from the Colorado River by the Hoover Dam
Lake Mead
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submerged the town of St. Thomas during its creation
Lake Mead
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provides fresh water to Las Vegas
Lake Mead
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reservoir in Arizona and Utah
Lake Powell
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Glen Canyon Dam
Lake Powell
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extremely polluted lake in California
Salton Sea
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Bombay Beach was famous for tourism in the 1960s until piles of dead fish started popping up
Salton Sea
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cities of Puno, Guaqui
Lake Titicaca
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the highest navigable lake in the world
Peru, Bolivia
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largest lake in the Altiplano (Peru, Bolivia)
Peru, Bolivia
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Uru people live on “floating islands” made out of totora reeds
Peru, Bolivia
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sacred to the Inca (Gateway of the Sun)
Peru, Bolivia
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more like a lagoon at this point, with brackish water in Venezuel
Lake Maracaibo
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called the lightning capital of the world because of “Catatumbo lightning” storms nearly every day
Lake Maracaibo
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Catatumbo River flows into
Lake Maracaibo
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high rate of Huntington’s disease study by Nancy Wexler
Lake Maracaibo
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contains one of the world’s largest oil reserves
Lake Maracaibo
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Zapara Island
Lake Maracaibo
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General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge crosses Tablazo Strait
Lake Maracaibo
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duckweed infestation
Lake Maracaibo
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Amerigo Vespucci called the surrounding region "Little Venice” because of stilted houses
Lake Maracaibo
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Baku, Azerbaijan, is on its shores
Caspian Sea
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Volga and Ural Rivers empty here
Caspian Sea
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Astrakhan, Russia, is where the Volga empties
Caspian Sea
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Alborz Mountains to the south
Caspian Sea
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the primary source of Beluga Caviar
Caspian Sea
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Siberia (Russia), just north of Mongolia near Irkutsk
Lake Baikal
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the deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikal
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contains nearly one-fifth of the world’s freshwater
Lake Baikal
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Selenga River flows into it, and the Angara River empties it
Lake Baikal
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nerpa seals
Lake Baikal
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Buryat people live on Olkhon Island
Lake Baikal
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called “hot lake” because it does not freeze over winter because it is saltwater
Issyk-Kul
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has shrunk by about 90%
Aral Sea
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USSR diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers to irrigate cotton fields (Karakum Canal)
Aral Sea
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very salty and in Jordan, West Bank, Israel
Dead Sea
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lowest nonocean point on Earth
Dead Sea
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ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorra
Dead Sea
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provides the majority of Cambodia's fish
Tonlé Sap
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drains into the Mekong most of the year, but switches direction in the wet season with the Mekong flowing into it
Tonlé Sap
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the lake is three times larger in the wet season
Tonlé Sap
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in Israel and mentioned a good bit in the Bible
Sea of Galilee
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largest lake in Europe
Lake Ladoga
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St. Petersburg is close by
Lake Ladoga
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connected to Lake Onega by the White Sea Canal
Lake Ladoga
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Russian sea near Lake Ladoga
Lake Onega
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big Swedish lake
Vänern
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Italian lake where a lot of rich people have villas
Lake Como
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Vevey, Montreux, and Evian-les-Bains (in Switzerland and France)
Lake Geneva
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Evian water comes from this area
Lake Geneva
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Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein while staying on the lake
Lake Geneva
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Mont Blanc is visible from here
Lake Geneva
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home to Nestle’s international headquarters
Lake Geneva
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a casino fire that inspired Deep Purple’s song “Smoke on the Water” happened here
Lake Geneva
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Scottish lake with a 'Monster'
Loch Ness
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‘surgeon’s photograph’ taken in 1934
Loch Ness
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in the Great Glen of the Scottish Highlands
Loch Ness
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Swiss lake that inspired Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Number 14)
Lake Lucerne
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between the Phillippines and the Marianas Trench
Philippine Sea
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separated from the South China Sea by the Strait of Luzon
Philippine Sea
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Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Malaysia
Philippine Sea
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Celebus Sea south of the Philippines
Philippine Sea
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part of the Indian Ocean west of India to the Horn of Africa
Arabian Sea
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includes Guld of Aden (south of Yemen), Gulf of Oman (northeast of Oman), Laccadive Sea (west coast of India)
Arabian Sea
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separates Africa from the Arabian peninsula
Red Sea
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parted by Moses
Red Sea
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part of the Great Rift Valley
Red Sea
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city of Jedda, Saudi Arabia
Red Sea
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cyanobacteria turns the blue waters a rusty red-brown
Red Sea
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at the north end of the Red Sea, west of the Sinai
Gulf of Suez
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between big Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula
Gulf of Suez
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connected to the Red Sea by the Strain of Gubal
Gulf of Suez
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connected to the Red Sea by the Strait of Tiran
Gulf of Aqaba
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the strait was blocked by the Arab League in 1967
Gulf of Aqaba
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Eilat, Israel and Aqaba, Jordan are port cities
Gulf of Aqaba
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Bab-el-Mandeb connects it to the Gulf of Aden on the southern end
Red Sea
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Halaib Triangle
Red Sea
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disputed region between Egypt and Sudan
Red Sea
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Kingdom of Axum
Red Sea
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separates the Arabian peninsula from Iran
Persian Gulf
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connected to the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz
Persian Gulf
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Shatt al-Arab (the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrades) empties here
Persian Gulf
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Includes the Palm Islands and The World Islands (Dubai)
Persian Gulf
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city of Abu Dhabi
Persian Gulf
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borders the countries of Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait
Persian Gulf
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east of India and borders Bangladesh, Myanmar,
Bay of Bengal
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Bay of Bengal
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contains the Sentinelese people, an uncontacted tribe that kills outsiders
Bay of Bengal
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eastern portion between Andaman Islands and Thailand is called the Andaman Sea
Bay of Bengal
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Sundarbans are a mangrove forest in the Ganges delta
Bay of Bengal
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between India and Sri Lanka
Gulf of Mannar
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connected to the Bay of Bengal by the Palk Strait
Gulf of Mannar
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Adam’s Bridge was a former ismuth that connected India and Sri lanka
Gulf of Mannar
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south of Taiwan, west of the Philippines
South China Sea
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China claims to own it and everything in it
South China Sea
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Nine-Dash Line
South China Sea
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Paracel and Spartly Islands
South China Sea
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Great Wall of Sand
South China Sea
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Gulf of Tonkin is a northern bit between Hainan, China and Vietnam
South China Sea
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Gulf of Thailand is the far west portion by Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
South China Sea
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connected to the Philippine Sea by the Luzon Strait
South China Sea
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Strait of Malacca connects it to the Indian Ocean via the Andaman Sea
South China Sea
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Karimata Strait connects it to the Java Sea
South China Sea
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connected to the Indian Ocean by the Sundra Strait
Java Sea
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really shallow sea
Java Sea
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separates China from the Korean peninsula
Yellow Sea
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the Yellow River (Huang He) drains into it
Yellow Sea
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Inchon, SK
Yellow Sea
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Bohai Sea is in the northwest portion
Yellow Sea
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between the Korean peninsula and Japan
Sea of Japan
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city of Vladivostok, Russia
Sea of Japan
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between Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) on the east and Siberia and Japan to the west
Sea of Okhotsk
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Northeast of Australia
Coral Sea
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between Australia and New Zealand
Tasman Sea
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includes Botany Bay near Sydney
Tasman Sea
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Bass Strait
Tasman Sea
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separates Australia from Tasmania
Tasman Sea
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between Australia and East Timor, north of Australia
Timor Sea
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includes Bight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, Bight of Bonny
Gulf of Guinea
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Lagos, Nigeria is the most critical port on the gulf
Gulf of Guinea
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separates Madagascar from the rest of Africa
Mozambique Channel
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Comoros Islands
Mozambique Channel
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Department of Mayotte (France)
Mozambique Channel
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bay of Rio de Janeiro
Guanabara Bay
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cities of Veracruz, Tampico, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile, Pensacola, St. Petersburg, and Tampa
Gulf of Mexico
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connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Florida Straits between the U.S. and Cuba, and with the Caribbean Sea by the Yucatán Channel between Mexico and Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
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Bay of Campeche in the southwest between the Yucatán Peninsula and the rest of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
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Guantanamo Bay is on the southern end of Cuba and owned by the US
Caribbean Sea
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Windward Passage, between Cuba and Haiti
Caribbean Sea
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where the St. Lawrence River drains
Gulf of St. Lawrence
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between Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland
Gulf of St. Lawrence
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connected to the Atlantic by Cabot Strait between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
Gulf of St. Lawrence
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connected to the Labrador Sea by the Strait of Belle Isle
Gulf of St. Lawrence
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between Labrador and Greenland
Labrador Sea
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connected to Baffin Bay by the Davis Strait
Labrador Sea
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between Baffin Island and Greenland
Labrador Sea
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connected to the Labrador Sea by the Hudson Strait
Hudson Bay
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named for Henry Hudson who was abandoned by his crew (sent adrift) in 1611 while searching for the Northwest Passage
Hudson Bay
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the Nelson, Albany, Severn rivers empty here
Hudson Bay
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southern end contains James Bay
Hudson Bay
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Battle of Seven Oaks (Seven Oaks Massacre) during the Pemmican War
Hudson Bay
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the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”
Hudson Bay
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that famous colony
Massachusetts Bay
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southern bit includes Cape Cod Bay
Massachusetts Bay
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south of Cape Cod, north of Nantucket Island with Martha’s Vineyard to the west
Nantucket Sound
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contains Aquidneck Island
Narragansett Bay
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city of Newport, RI
Narragansett Bay
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third-largest estuary in the world
Chesapeake Bay
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cities of Baltimore and Annapolis
Chesapeake Bay
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the Potomac River drains into the bay
Chesapeake Bay
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flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Bay
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separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula.
Bering Sea
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bordered on the far north by the Bering Strait
Bering Sea
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borbered on the east by Alaska
Bering Sea
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bordered on the west by Russia and the Kamchatka Peninsula
Bering Sea
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bordered on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands
Bering Sea
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connects the Bering Sea to the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Ocean
Bering Sea
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Bristol Bay is an eastern portion
Bering Sea
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connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Puget Sound
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connected to the Pacific at Golden Gate
San Francisco Bay
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contains Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
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between the Baja Peninsula and mainland Mexico
Gulf of California
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also called the Sea of Cortez or the Vermilion Sea
Gulf of California
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western end of the Mediterranean
Alboran Sea
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connected to the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar
Alboran Sea
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contains the Costa del Sol of Spain
Alboran Sea
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contains the islands of Ibiza, Mallorca, and Menorca
Balearic Sea
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cities of Valencia and Barcelona
Balearic Sea
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a northern portion is the Gulf of Lion, where Marseille is a port
Balearic Sea
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connected to the Tyrrhenian Sea by the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia
Balearic Sea
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ports of Cannes, Nece, Monaco, Genoa
Ligurian Sea
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Corsica and Elba on the southern end
Ligurian Sea
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Corsica and Elba to the north, Sardinia to the west, Sicily to the south, and Italy to the northeast
Tyrrhenian Sea
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island of Capri and the Aeolian islands
Tyrrhenian Sea
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cities of Naples and Palermo, Sicily
Tyrrhenian Sea
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the Tiber River empties into it after going past Rome and the Vatican
Tyrrhenian Sea
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between Greece and Italy
Ionian Sea
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Calypso Deep is the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Hellenic Trench in the Ionian Sea
Ionian Sea
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connected to the Tyrrhenian Sea by the Messina Strait
Ionian Sea
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Gulf of Taranto in the northwest, between the ball and heel of Italy’s ‘boot’
Ionian Sea
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one of the marginal seas that comes up the most
Adriatic Sea
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Between Italy and the Balkan states
Adriatic Sea
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important ports of Venice, Bari Italy, Dbrovnik Croatia
Adriatic Sea
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southern portion between Crete and the Cyclades is called the Sea of Crete
Aegean Sea
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northern portion is caled the Thracian Sea
Aegean Sea
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the Dardanelles Strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara
Aegean Sea
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includes the Alboran, Balearic, Ligurian, Tyrrhenian, Ionian, Adriatic, and Aegean Seas
Mediterranean Sea
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Istanbul is split by the Bosphorus Strait which connects the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea
Sea of Marmara
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north of Spain and west of France, part of the Atlantic
Bay of Biscay
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Bilbao, Spain and Nantes, France
Bay of Biscay
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the Cantabrian Sea is a name for the southern part near the Spanish coast
Bay of Biscay
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south of Ireland, west of England and the Britany region of France
Celtic Sea
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connects to the Irish Sea by the St. George’s Channel
Celtic Sea
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Cork, Ireland, is the principal port
Celtic Sea
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leads to the English Channel
Celtic Sea
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borders Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
Irish Sea
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Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, N. Ireland and Liverpool, UK
Irish Sea
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contains the Isle of Man
Irish Sea
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lots of bays and whatnot, so study the map
Irish Sea
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the North Channel connects it to the Sea of Hebrides
Irish Sea
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between England and France
English Channel
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Isle of Wight
English Channel
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Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey)
English Channel
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Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) is an underwater railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover
English Channel
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connected to the North Sea by the Strait of Dover
English Channel
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Strait of Dover is between Dover and Calais
English Channel
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Walde Lighthouse (France) and Leathercoat Point (UK)
English Channel
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White Cliffs of Dover
English Channel
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Cotentin Peninsula (Cherbourg Peninsula) is a peninsula in Normandy, France
English Channel
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between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France
North Sea
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Norwegian Sea to the north
North Sea
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contains the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland
North Sea
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Jutland Peninsula of Denmark to the east
North Sea
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center of the European oil market, mostly Norway
North Sea
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enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden
Baltic Sea
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separates Finland and Sweden
Baltic Sea
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drains through the Danish Straits into the Kattegat by the Øresund, Great Belt, and Little Belt
Baltic Sea
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includes the Gulf of Bothnia, Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga, Bay of Gdańsk
Baltic Sea
